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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Welcome to Guess That Cake, where your most delicious desserts are decorated and designed, deconstructed and defined. I'm your host, Kay Krex. Let's start the show!

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Now folks, if you're just tuning in, you're just in time for the rules. We'll show you a cake that was prepared by professional bakers at an actual cake store. All you have to do is GUESS... THAT... CAKE!!

Here we go. Let's start off easy with a cake sent all the way across the interwebs from Bridget H.:

Ooooh, so sorry to the contestants that did not choose "C." We realize it was the least obvious choice, as that cake absolutely does not resemble the Virginia Tech logo, especially considering the missing parts of the letter "V" and the general lack of enthusiasm put into the "go team."

Moving on to our final round where the points that we've neglected to mention until now are DOUBLED, let's take a look at this masterpiece sent in by Jasmine:

Can you tell us if that little guy on the bottom is supposed to be:

A) A broken vaseB) A bullhorn with a stick through its eyeC) A fish with legs wearing sunglasses and a beret and carrying a paintbrush

Survey says...

Eeeeesh- tough one. Tough one. I'm sure most of you were so distracted by the haphazard confetti sprinkles and day-glo lettering that you missed this little camp logo altogether. Spitting image, really. What a shame.

Better luck to you cake-lovers and wrecktators out there on the next episode of "GUESS... THAT... CAKE!" G'night, everyone!

Seriously...I don't get it...if you lack the skills to draw the logo yourself, why don't these people just cut out the logo and use it like a stencil. Obviously, they have plenty of sprinkly things they can use.

How do some of these wreakarators get jobs decorating cakes? I suppose the employers just take their word for it when it comes to artistry instead of giving them a test run? Or are these cakes the test runs that failed but were put on sale anyway?

This reminds me of a local radio show I used to listen to on my way to school, called, "Just pick C!!!" I always wanted to be caller #12 or whatever, 'cause I always knew I could get the answer right .....

You know you've been visiting this blog a long time when you look at the second one and you know it isn't B because that's exactly what it does look like and you know it IS C because that's what it looks least like. Ironically or maybe saddly, the Virginia Tech logo has to be one of the easiest to pull off with a CCC.

...shaking head...and the VT logo is one of the easiest to do- simple lines, etcso sad... must have been made by a bakery in Whoville (Charlottesville- home of the rival UVA cavaliers)Go Hokies!-goodfood4ursoul in VA

Cake #2 - *scrolling down - see the "go team" enthusiasm....* I'm going to guess "L. T." (LaDainian Tomlinson) of NFL fame. Dang! It's not even a choice! I'm from the Big 12, so VT never even crossed my mind...

Thank goodness this is a multiple guess gameshow!!

#3 - I actually got this one right, although I had to read the inscription 3 times to figure out what it said. I guessed a fish - but not all the walking and paintbrush stuff.... oh dear!

1) is that for a firefighting angel? an arsonist? a performance artist specializing in pyrotechnics? what, no border? *scroll down* Oh, we have choices here. I'm totally lost. *scroll down* Oh. um, they forgot the crown on the B. Looks like what should be emblazoned on a motorcycle.

2) No clue. Ick brown icing, lame orange border, no enthusiasm on Go Team. (must be an expected-to-lose team with obligatory cake. but what sport?? sledgehammering?)

*scroll down* B! B! California holding a sledgehammer! that's what it LOOKS like anyway. Are they going to pummel Nevada or something? *scroll down* oh boy. They don't even have the colors right on VT, as if that even looks like a V. and that's a topheavy T.

3) Music, golf and an evolution fish sprouting legs? *scroll down* Um, the fish? but the beret is missing. What kind of camp is this? Fishing and art? Jazz and Tee suggests music and golf to me, too.

For the second wreck I was thinking way too hard - elongated hockey stick and puck? Um, nope. But I guessed Virginia Tech correctly when I read the choices. That last one is very funky - can't say that I've ever seen a painting fish with legs and a beret before...

I like the stencil idea anonymous had. Then you just frost the cupcakes individually in red, and put a line of white around them to tie it together. Make them one cupcake thick all the way around, too.

I like how they made the left part of the V two cupcakes thick, but then made the top of the T (that doesn't have a leg) THREE cupcakes thick. That is just weird, and I think the California holding a sledgehammer thing was GENIOUS.

I dunno about the last one, as the description actually fits pretty well, and the logo itself kind of needed explanation in the first place. I don't think you can blame someone for going their own way on that one. The whole thing's a mess just the same, though, under any circumstances.

In defense of some of these cake wrecks, I've been in their shoes, and a customer will come up and just tell you, I want a fish carrying a paintbrush wearing a beret and not give ya any idea what the logo or whatever is supposed to be. And to the lady that said you need an art degree to do cakes? LOL.. that's too funny... I got paid maybe 25 cents above minimum wage to do cakes for a store. (That's what I did while going through college.) I took a cake decorating course at the local community college, and loved it, and ended up getting a part time job doing it. These stores also expect you to only put in 10-15 minutes to ice and decorate most cakes. Some of these were still REALLY sad.

I know what's wrong with the last one: they forgot the little beret. WTH is wrong with people? Even if this is the 21st century, it sure seems hard to find someone in a grocery store willing to put your total nonsense artist-fish logo on baked goods. *sheesh*

I don't quite know the story behind the fish (if it is) but the fact that we're on a tropical-ish island and use fish in a lot of logos probably has something to do with it. Don't ask me why it has legs though.

And if my guess is correct, would the submitter please, PLEASE reveal which bakery is responsible for that thing? For the safety of local cake-buyers? Even just a hint would help....

I love this site and HAD to comment today on how hilarious the post was! Oh my gosh! I'm still wiping the water off my keyboard from when I squirted it out of my mouth while I was laughing. Great website!

Oh no! I'm a VA Tech alum, and as soon as I saw it, I knew deep down in the pits of my stomach that's what it was supposed to be. And I said a little prayer that it wasn't...which was quickly unanswered. Just wow...

The first cake: None of the above. That is absolutely a combination of Barbie and Hot Wheels logos. (It's a ubiquitous combination, trust me -- every time you see a toy, kids' bedding, etc. where the same thing is offered in both "girl" and "boy" variations.)

California with a sledgehammer. LOL. That even makes sense. We Californians have an attitude, you know.

The Virginia Tech logo cake...wow, complete lack of geometry skills there. Not to mention even my three year old knows what a V and a T look like, and could probably line up cupcakes in some semblance of the correct shape.

Lol I loved today's post! That fish logo with legs looked more like an impaled darwin fish than the logo it was supposed to be. Scary how none of the cakes matched the logos especially the Virginia Tech one..couldn't stop laughing.

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